Blackbird Doughnuts / Sally's Sandwiches - South End
Donut shop · South End
492 Tremont St, Boston, MA 02116
Highlights
Inventive sweet & savory donuts, plus coffee and sandwiches
Inventive sweet & savory donuts, plus coffee and sandwiches
"This is no Dunkin Donuts. The team behind our favorite South End haunt The Gallows presents this tiny takeaway doughnut shop just a stone's throw from home. Blackbird makes both sweet and savory raised doughnuts in the old school fashion but with modern flavors like sesame Sriracha, salted toffee, blackberry lavender and pepperoni pizza! The space has a nouveau industrial feel with a wall of steel pained windows allowing customers to peek into the baking process and watch the fresh doughnuts make their way into the front of the house. But be warned, they are habit forming, especially the little stacks of three!" - Adam&Co.
"This South End-born doughnut chain turns out some of the city’s very best doughnuts, including several takes on cider doughnuts like a spiced cake doughnut with cinnamon sugar and a vegan brioche doughnut with cider glaze and fall sprinkles." - Terrence Doyle, Adam H. Callaghan
"Blackbird Doughnuts in Boston’s South End (and also Beacon Hill, Brighton, Fenway, Harvard Square, and Newton Centre) is, it has to be said, now iconic. It’s slinging some of the city’s most excellent doughnuts. The salted toffee is perfectly balanced and should be part of your dozen, but the signature flavor — a vanilla bean old fashioned with vanilla bean glaze — is what keeps the lights on. Also worth your pennies: something savory from Sally’s Sandwiches, which is located inside the original shop on Tremont Street. (Note: The Harvard Square location is temporarily closed but expected to reopen in September 2021.)" - Terrence Doyle
"The local doughnut chain is currently pausing doughnut production at all locations, but the South End location is delivering slices of pie and a few other treats. Delivering locally via Caviar." - Rachel Leah Blumenthal
"The original Blackbird Doughnuts is situated in a building that hardly matches its surroundings. The angular concrete facade stands in stark contrast to the South End’s ceaseless block of brownstones. Grab some coffee and some doughnuts, and discuss whether brutalism is a stain on the city, or if the hurt feelings of Bostonians with more traditional aesthetic proclivities make brutalism the best form of architecture in existence. (No sweet tooth? There’s a new sandwich shop inside Blackbird, Sally’s, if that’s more your thing.)" - Terrence Doyle
